"Nature Seen in Brooklyn, Now and Then / An Artist's Sketchbook Journals" Exhibition

Brooklyn Public Library (Central)

poster for "Nature Seen in Brooklyn, Now and Then / An Artist's Sketchbook Journals" Exhibition

This event has ended.

Three Photographers Looks at Brooklyn: Brainerd, Austin & Golden by Richard Golden

"We usually think of Brooklyn as entirely urban, but according to the New York City Department of City Planning, a third of it is open space. So, Brooklyn has a greater proportion of open space than the New York City overall average, and also more than any other borough. Its open spaces include Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, other parks, ocean beaches, marshes, reservoirs and cemeteries, most of which are accessible by public transportation.

Through the vintage photographs I have chosen here, you can see Brooklyn's proximity to nature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. My contemporary photographs further demonstrate how varied and beautiful Brooklyn's open space is today, with Brooklyn's beaches comparable to those of the Hamptons, and Brooklyn's ponds and woods comparable to those in the Catskills and the Adirondacks. Together, these photographs inspire a new appreciation of the vision and achievement of the people who set aside so much of Brooklyn as open space for our benefit today.

I selected the vintage photographs from the library's collection of black and white prints by Brooklyn-based photographers George Bradford Brainerd (1845-1887) and Daniel Berry Austin, whose work dates from 1899 to 1909."

[Image: Richard Golden "The Pond, Floyd Bennet Field"]

Media

Schedule

from September 15, 2009 to November 05, 2009

  • Facebook

    Reviews

    All content on this site is © their respective owner(s).
    New York Art Beat (2008) - About - Contact - Privacy - Terms of Use